She described how she went from being a high school senior to a respected member of the gang's inner circle, setting up drug lines, renting apartments and leasing vehicles and delivering large quantities of cocaine to dealers across the Lower Mainland

A Red Scorpion jacket. The gang had T-shirts and jackets with a giant Red Scorpion on the back, as well as gold rings with a scorpion on top and the RS initials on the side.

Photograph by: Abbotsford police
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METRO VANCOUVER — A young woman who lived with accused Surrey Six killer Cody Haevischer at the time of the 2007 slaughter gave dramatic testimony Monday about the inner workings of the violent Red Scorpion gang to which he belonged.

And the woman, who can only be identified as KM because of a publication ban, described how she went from being a high school senior to a respected member of the gang's inner circle, setting up drug lines, renting apartments and leasing vehicles and delivering large quantities of cocaine to dealers across the Lower Mainland.

KM was working at a North Road McDonald's when she first met Haevischer in the fall of 2003.

He went through the drive-thru in a "shitty car" that she made fun of, KM told Justice Catherine Wedge.

Before long, they exchanged numbers and were dating, meeting in parks to smoke pot or hang out, she testified.

She met his buddy and now co-accused Matthew Johnston, who she said was like Haevischer's brother.

KM first heard the name of the now notorious gang when Haevischer invited her to a Coquitlam apartment where several gang members had gathered in the spring of 2004. She was high on magic mushrooms.

Among them was Michael Le, who last week pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Corey Lal, one of six shot execution-style in the Oct. 19, 2007 Surrey Six murders.

She said there was a newspaper article about a Vancouver shooting on the coffee table, along with some crack and a police baton. One of the RS members said they were behind the shooting.

"They were joking around. They were saying how they did that shooting and that now that I knew that, they were going to have to kill me," KM testified at the Vancouver Law Courts.

It wasn't long before they found a role for the teen, who was unknown to police at the time: they asked her to drive Haevischer around as he made crack deliveries in New Westminster.

She dropped out of school and was eventually kicked out of her house by her distraught mother who guessed that Haevischer was involved in the drug trade.

"She yelled at me and him because he drove a Lexus and wasn't a doctor so she knew he was a drug dealer," said KM.

She moved to a Guildford stash house used by the Red Scorpions to reload the runners working for one of their dial-a-dope lines.

"You go there to sleep and eat and drop off your drugs. It wasn't like a home."

At Le's urging, she started a dial-a-dope line for the gang in Langley, but it foundered. So she moved to Richmond as the RS set up shop there.

She was a valued member of the team even though only men could get the special Red Scorpion tattoo. They would joke that she deserved one too because she was "harder" than her male counter-parts.

The gang had a ritual for when someone got the tattoo, she said, "but as a girl, I wasn't allowed to go."

"It meant that you were a full brother. You were in the family," she explained, adding that only those in the "inner circle" were allowed to get tattoos until the Bacon brothers joined the gang.

"Then they were handing them out like candy," she said.

Being a Red Scorpion meant your gang brothers would be loyal to you and look after your family if you were arrested, KM said.

She recalled delivering $10,000 a month to Le's sister and girlfriend when he was in jail.

It was in mid-2007 when KM first met Jamie Bacon and learned that his gang associates would become RS members.

There was a special dinner at a downtown Vancouver steakhouse where the old team met the new players.

It was Le's idea to expand the Red Scorpions through the merger so they could control the entire Lower Mainland drug trade. "We were kind of taking over," KM said.

She agreed with Crown Geoff Baragar that as the gang grew, so did the violence.

"That was just part of it," she said.

"We got shit done. People didn't really want to mess with us."

The gang later got RS t-shirts and jackets with a giant Red Scorpion on the back, as well as gold rings with a scorpion on top and the RS initials on the side.

KM described snapshots seized by police after the Surrey Six murders showing RS members, shirtless and exposing their gang tattoos. There are pictures of them partying, out sky-diving, at a water park and posing in front of their luxury cars.

KM started taking business courses at CDI college, hoping to build a post-crack life with Haevischer with a "legit business."

She leased suite 1601 at the Stanley in Surrey, where the Crown says Haevischer, Johnston and a man who can only be identified as Person X met on Oct. 19 before driving to the nearby Balmoral where they executed Lal, his brother Michael and associates Ryan Bartolomeo and Eddie Narong, as well as passers-by Chris Mohan and Ed Schellenberg.